Re: Hub-like bridge behaviour?

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:11:23 +0100
Patric Schmitz <patricschmitz@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello linux-net,
> 
> is there a (preferrably simple) way to make a  ethernet bridge behave like a
> hub, instead of a switch?
> I want the packets to be routed not only to the "port" for which the MAC-address
> of the receiver is cached, but have them duplicated on all ports.
> The aim of this is to have 2 interfaces bridged, and take a third one into the
> bridge which replicates the bridge traffic, so a second machine can be connected
> on this port to monitor the actual bridge traffic.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>   Patric

Set the bridge forwarding delay and ageing time to zero.

# brctl setageingtime br0 0
# brctl setfd br0 0


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Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>

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